Western āDepressionā is Not Universal
Derek Summerfield, consultant psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley National Health Service Foundation Trust, challenges the assumption that Western depression is a universal condition.
Investigation Reveals Alarming ECT Practices in England
Audit of ECT usage, demographics, and adherence to guidelines and legislation raises concern over its continued use.
Pierre Janet and the History of Psychological Treatments
In this piece forĀ Holistic Elephants, Bernard Guerin discusses Pierre Janet's bookĀ Psychological Healing: A Historical and Clinical Study, which describes a variety of mental health...
The Perspective of the Outside
FromĀ Red Wedge: Mark Fisher, an author and scholar known for analyzing mental health under neoliberal capitalism, took his own life this past January. His...
Scales Assessing Child and Adolescent Psychopathology Lack Cross-Cultural Validity
Researchers find few existing "psychopathology scales" are appropriate for global utilization.
The Paradox of White Americansā Mental Health
Are White Americansā poor mental health outcomes caused by Whiteness?
Why We Ended Long-Term Solitary Confinement in Colorado
FromĀ The New York Times: According to international standards for the treatment of prisoners, keeping someone in solitary confinement for longer than 15 days is...
How to Reach Out to Someone who is Struggling
In this piece forĀ On Being, Omid Safi shares how an old Middle Eastern story about a drowning man can teach us how to offer...
Why We’ve Been Thinking About Madness All Wrong
In this interview forĀ Pacific Standard, David Dobbs, who profiled Nev Jones this month, discusses the ways that the mental health community is beginning to...
Psychologists Push For New Approaches to Psychosis: Part 2
The authors of the report expand upon the traumatic and sociopolitical factors underlying presentations of psychosis and āschizophrenia.ā
Psychiatrists Have Issued a Statement on Aversion Therapy
FromĀ BuzzFeed: The Royal College of Psychiatrists has issued a historic statement acknowledging the harm done toĀ lesbian, gay, and bisexual people who were subjected to...
Birthday Letter: Sylvia Plath and “Daddy”
In this pieceĀ forĀ The Paris Review, Belinda McKeon analyzes the poetry and letters Sylvia Plath wrote in the few months just before her suicide.
Why More American Teens Than Ever Suffer From Severe Anxiety
In this piece forĀ The New York Times, Benoit Denizet-Lewis explores the social, cultural, and economic factors that have contributed to the significant rise in...
The Social Life of Opioids
FromĀ Scientific American: Increasing prescription rates of opioid painkillers are often blamed for America's current opioid crisis. However, a growing body of research suggests that...
Psychology in the Metacolony
FromĀ Mail & Guardian: Colonialism today is more entrenched in our society than it ever has been in the past, and traditional psychology and mental...
Child Abuse and Violence Survivors are Being Re-Traumatised
FromĀ The Independent: Recently, psychiatric patients used the hashtag #AbusedByServices to tweet about their experiences being re-traumatized by mental health services. The hashtag reflects the...
The Touch of Madness
In this piece forĀ Pacific Standard, David Dobbs recounts the story of Nev Jones, a psychologist with lived experience who is working to change the...
Psychologists Push For New Approaches to Psychosis: Part 1
Psychologists and people with experience of psychotic symptoms publish a report on new ways of understanding psychosis.
World Mental Health Day
In this pieceĀ written in honor of World Mental Health Day,Ā Peter Kinderman emphasizes the importance of challenging the biomedical model of mental health and paying...
Duke Psychiatrist: America is Having a Nervous Breakdown
In thisĀ interviewĀ forĀ AlterNet, Allen Frances describes the various political, social, and psychological factors that led the U.S. to elect President Trump and create the national...
Living With Depression Under Capitalism
In this piece forĀ rs21, Kate Bradley writes about the depression she has experienced as a result of capitalism and societal oppression, and the way...
Why You Should Never Tell Someone Who’s Grieving to Move On
In this interview forĀ Thrive Global, psychoanalyst Robert Stolorow explains why we should not seek to heal or fix the grief we experience from trauma...
Natural Disasters Have a Serious Impact on Mental Health
FromĀ Bustle: Natural disasters often inflict psychological harm on those who experience them, increasing the likelihood of PTSD in survivors. In addition to repairing physical...
Being Empathetic is Good, but it can Hurt Your Health
FromĀ The Washington Post: Research shows that while empathy is an essential ingredient for building relationships, feeling overwhelmed by others' emotions can lead to health...
Inside a Case of Repressed Memory
FromĀ The Guardian: At age 17, Nicole Kluemper came to be one of the most controversial cases in modern psychology when she recovered memories of...
